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GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast
A geriatrics and palliative medicine podcast for every health care professional. Two UCSF doctors, Eric Widera and Alex Smith, invite the brightest minds in geriatrics, hospice, and palliative care to talk about the topics that you care most about, ranging from recently published research in the field to controversies that keep us up at night. You'll laugh, learn, and maybe sing along. CME and MOC credit available (AMA PRA Category 1 credits) at www.geripal.org
Episodes
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastLoneliness and Social Isolation: Podcast with Carla Perissinotto and Ashwin Kotwal
"Loneliness is different than isolation and solitude. Loneliness is a subjective feeling where the connections we need are greater than the connections we…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastAducanumab (Aduhelm) for the Treatment of Alzheimers: A Podcast with Aaron Kesselheim and Jason Karlawish
On June 7th, 2021 FDA approved the amyloid beta-directed antibody aducanumab (Aduhelm) for the Treatment of Alzheimers. This approval of aducanumab was not…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastCannabis in Older Adults: A Podcast with Bree Johnston and Ben Han
Cannabis use by older adults has increased substantially over the last decade, a trend that has paralleled the legalization of its use for medical and…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastPolypharmacy and Deprescribing Super Special: Podcast with Anna Parks, Matthew Growdon, and Mike Steinman
In a new study in JAGS, Matthew Growdon found that the average number of medications people with dementia took in the outpatient setting was eight, compared to…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastProgram of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE): A Podcast with Dan Drake and Jay Luxenberg
Older adults often turn to institutional settings like nursing homes when they need more help than they can get at home. However, since the 1970s, there has…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastRace/ethnic differences in end-of-life care: Podcast with Rashmi Sharma and Zhi Jia
We have made remarkable progress in reducing the use of feeding tubes for patients with advanced dementia. This has been due to the leadership of people like…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastNeuropalliative Care: A podcast with Benzi Kluger, Edward Richfield, and Christine Ritchie
While palliative care most traditionally grew up with a strong association with cancer care and end-of-life care, more and more evidence is coming out about…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastNeighborhood-Disadvantage and Health: A Podcast with Amy Kind
What if there was a tool that could break down a neighborhood's socioeconomic measures, like income, education, employment and housing quality, to give us a…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastReturn to Normal Hesitancy: Podcast with Monica Gandhi and Ashwin Kotwal
Harm reduction, as so clearly described by our guest Monica Gandhi on this podcast, began as a public health approach that guided management of HIV. Harm…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast"Palliative" Inotropes?!?: Podcast with Haider Warraich
In your clinical experience, you may have cared for patients receiving palliative chemotherapy and wondered, hmmm, why is that called "palliative"…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastAll Things Caregivers: Podcast with Chanee Fabius and Halima Amjad
What is a care manager? In this week's podcast we talk with Chanee Fabius, who after a personal experience caring for a family member with dementia, became a…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastGeriatric Cardiology and "Pump Head" Revisited: Podcast with Liz Whitlock and Mike Rich
A September 2000 New York Times article titled, "Sometimes Saving the Heart Can Mean Losing the Memory" describes a relatively newly described phenomena of…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastFrailty and Resilience: A Podcast with Linda Fried
Frailty. What the heck is it? Why does it matter? How do we recognize it and if we do recognize it, is there anything we can do about it? On today's podcast we…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastMoral Injury: Podcast with Shira Maguen
Though origins of the term "moral injury" can be traced back to religious bioethics, most modern usage comes from a recognition of a syndrome of guilt, shame…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastLife, Death, and a Hospital Strained by COVID: Podcast with Brian Block, Sunita Puri and Denise Barchas
During the winter peak in coronavirus cases, things got busy in my hospital, but nothing close to what happened in places like New York City last spring or Los…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastDisability in the home: Podcast with Sarah Szanton and Kenny Lam
We know from study after study that most older adults would prefer to age in place, in their homes, with their families and embedded in their communities. But…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastAll things Amyloid, including Aducanumab and Amyloid PET scans with Gil Rabinovici
There are no currently approved disease modifying drugs for Alzheimer's disease, but in a couple months that may change. In July of 2021, the FDA will consider…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastAgeism + COVID19 = Elder Genocide: Podcast on nursing homes with Mike Wasserman
One of our earliest COVID podcasts with Jim Wright and David Grabowski a year ago addressed the early devastating impact of COVID on nursing homes. One year…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastCOVID Vaccine Hesitancy in Frontline Nursing Home Staff
COVID has taken a devastated toll in nursing homes. Despite representing fewer than 5% of the total US events, at least 40% of COVID‐19–related deaths occurred…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastExpelled from Hospice: Podcast with Elizabeth Luth and Lauren Hunt
Hospice may not be a great match for all of the care needs of people with dementia, but it sure does help. And, as often happens, when patients with dementia…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastReframing Aging: A Podcast with Patricia D'Antonio
The COVID pandemic brought to light many things, including how society views older adults. Louise Aronson wrote a piece in the NY Times titled "'Covid-19 Kills…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastSo you want to be a hospice medical director? Podcast with Tommie Farrell and Kai Romero
So what exactly does a hospice medical director do? Why do some choose to become hospice physicians? What additional training is needed, if any, beyond Hospice…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastThe Problem of Alzheimer's: A Podcast with Jason Karlawish
Where are we with Alzheimers? Are we about to see a revolution in how we diagnose and treat it with Amyloid PET scans and the amyloid antibody aducanumab…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastImportance of Function in COVID Prognosis: Podcast with Orestis Panagiotou, Elizabeth White, and Marlon Aliberti
Nursing home residents have been devastated by COVID. Somewhere around 40% of deaths from COVID have been among nursing home residents, though they make up…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastLGBT Care for Older Adults and Serious Illness: Podcast with Carey Candrian and Angela Primbas
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) older adults have lived through a lifetime of discrimination, social stigma, prejudice, and marginalization. Is…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastMedications Safety/Quality Update: Podcast with Nagham Ailabouni
On the one hand, every year we are fortunate to have new medications that help older adults and people living with serious illness. New treatments for lung…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastLiving with Death: A Podcast with BJ Miller
Most of us know we are going to die. How often though do we actually let ourselves really internalize that understanding? To imagine it? To feel it? To try to…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastCaregivers: Podcast with Jessica Zitter
Many of us in geriatrics and palliative care assume that we are the experts in health care when it comes to understanding the caregiver experience. Every once…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastGuardianship and End-of-Life Decision Making: A Podcast with Andy Cohen and Liz Dzeng
Surrogate decision‐making around life-sustaining treatments in the hospital even in the best of circumstances is hard. It's maybe even harder when caring for…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastCaregiving Boot Camp: Podcast with Zaldy Tan
"Diagnose and adios." That's the sad phrase that I've heard quoted more than once, representing caregivers' sentiment of what it's like to be told by a…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastDriving a Cultural Shift in the End Of Life Experience: A Podcast with Shoshana Ungerleider on "Take 10"
What does it mean to create a cultural shift to the end of life experience? Is it even possible? How do you even start something like that? On today's podcast…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastTime to Benefit of Statins for Primary Prevention: A Podcast with Lindsey Yourman and Sei Lee
How long does it take to see a benefit of statin therapy for primary prevention of cardiovascular events in adults aged 50 to 75 years? That's the question we…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastAge Friendly Health Systems: Podcast with Julia Adler-Milstein and Stephanie Rogers
An age friendly health system is one in which everyone, from the doctors to the nurses to the people cleaning the rooms are aware of the unique needs of older…
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Crisis Communication and Grief in the Emergency Department: Podcast with Naomi George and Kai Romero
The Emergency Department (ED) is a hard place to have serious illness discussions, whether it be goals of care or code status discussions, or whether or not to…
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Palliative Care for non-cancer illness: Podcast with Kieran Quinn and Krista Harrison
In this week's podcast we talk with Kieran Quinn, author of a systematic review and meta-analysis of palliative care for non-cancer illness, published in JAMA…
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State of Heart Failure & Palliative Care: Podcast with Haider Warraich
There are a lot of large numbers that involve heart failure, starting with the sheer number of patients diagnosed (6.5 million and counting), to the cost of…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastThe Geriatric 5M Approach to Telemedicine Assessment: A Podcast with Lauren Moo
On todays podcast, we have Lauren Moo, a cognitive behavioral neurologist who has been doing video visits well before the COVID-19 pandemic to decrease the…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastAdvance Care Planning is So Right: Podcast with Rebecca Sudore and Ryan McMahan
Last month we published a podcast with Sean Morrison that garnered a great deal of attention, in which Sean Morrison argued that Advance Care Planning is an…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastBrain Death: A Podcast with Robert Truog
In 1968 a committee at Harvard Medical School met to lay down the groundwork for a new definition of death, one that was no longer confined to the irreversible…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastIt's Time for Comprehensive Dementia Care: Podcast with Lee Jennings and Chris Callahan
Chris Callahan (of Indiana University) and Lee Jennings (University of Oklahoma) have some righteous anger. Why do we have comprehensive cancer care centers…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastReducing serious fall-related injuries: an interview with NEJM STRIDE Study author Tom Gill
Every year, about a third of older adults fall. About one in five of those falls result in moderate to severe injury. What can we do to help not only prevent…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastFamily Meetings for Patients with Serious Illness: Podcast with Eric Widera
No dear listeners and readers, that is not a typo. Eric Widera is indeed our guest today to discuss his first author publication in the New England Journal of…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastThe Perfect Storm of COVID‐19 in Nursing Homes: A Podcast with Joe Ouslander
COVID-19 has created a perfect storm in nursing homes. As noted in a recent Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) article by Joe Ouslander and…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastAdvance Care Planning is Wrong: Podcast with Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison dropped a bomb. It's a perspective I've heard before from outside of palliative care, most clearly by bioethicists Angie Fagerlin and Carl…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastAgeism in the Time of COVID: Podcast with Louise Aronson
In this week's GeriPal podcast we talk with Louise Aronson, author of the Pulitzer prize finalist Elderhood…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastCommunication Skills in a time of Crises: A Podcast with VitalTalk Faculty Drs. Back and Anderson
Despite being in the field over 15 years, I've never felt so far outside my comfort zone as as palliative care provider as I have felt in the last four months…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastElder Mistreatment: Podcast with Laura Mosqueda
If you looked at the academic literature, you would think that elder abuse and neglect, collectively called elder mistreatment, did not exist before the 1990s…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastOutsized Impact of COVID19 on Minority Communities: Podcast with Monica Peek and Alicia Fernandez
This was a remarkable podcast. Eric and I were blown away by the eloquence of our guests, who were able to speak to this moment in which our country is hurting…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastRationing of Scarce COVID-19 Drug Treatments: A Podcast with Drs. DeJong, Chen, and White
The question of who should get limited supplies of drugs that treat COVID-19 is not a theoretical question, like what seems to have happened with ventilators…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastImmune Checkpoint Inhibitors: Podcast with Laura Petrillo
Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors. They are revolutionary and transforming cancer care. They shrink tumors and extend lives. Plus they have a better side effect…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastRamping up Tele-GeriPal in a Pandemic: Claire Ankuda, Chris Woodrell, Ashwin Kotwal, & Lynn Flint
As Ashwin Kotwal and Lynn Flint note in the introduction to their Annals of Internal Medicine essay…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastPalliative Care for Individuals with Parkinson's Disease: Podcast with Benzi Kluger
Parkinson disease affects 1% to 2% of people older than 65 years. Most known for its distinctive motor symptoms, other distressing symptoms are pain, fatigue…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastCOVID19 in Prisons
Eight of the 10 largest outbreaks in the US have been in correctional facilities. Physical distancing is impossible in prisons and jails - they're not built…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastDo Sitters Prevent Falls for Hospitalized Patients?
One million inpatient falls occur annually in U.S. acute care hospitals. Sitters, also referred to as Continuous Patient Aids (CPA's) or safety attendants, are…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastShould Age be Used To Ration Scarce Resources? Podcast with Tim Farrell and Doug White
We are rationing in the US. We may not be explicitly rationing, as we're going to discuss on this podcast, but we are rationing - in the way we allocate fewer…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastSurgical Palliative Care: A Podcast with Red Hoffman
The cross-over episode is an American tradition that is near and dear to my heart. My childhood is filled with special moments that brought some of my very…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastWhat is Emotional PPE? Podcast with Dani Chammas
We are delighted to have Dani Chammas, psychiatrist and palliative care physician, back on the GeriPal podcast to talk about emotional PPE. None of us can…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastProactive Integration of Geriatrics & Palliative Care Principles into COPD: Podcast with Anand Iyer
What's the role of geriatrics and palliative care in the care of individuals with COPD? We talk this week with Anand Iyer, the lead author of this weeks JAMA…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastThe Outsized Impact of COVID in Nursing Homes & in Dementia: Guests Kathleen Unroe & Ellen Kaehr
Many of you listened to our prior podcast with Jim Wright and David Grabowski about COVID in long term and post acute care settings. In this follow up podcast…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastLove letter to Mt. Sinai
We were asked by Sean Morrison, Chair of the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, to…